Premium Expert briefings Controlling your personal career brand is essential in the public sector Australian Capital Territory Perception is reality unless disproved. Taking control of your personal career brand and impression management is, therefore, essential. Prejudices and narratives originate from personal experiences…
Young people remain ill-equipped to participate in Australian democracy Thursday January 21, 2021 By Zareh Ghazarian, Jacqueline Laughland-Booy and Zlatko Skrbis Australian Capital Territory The latest figures show the previous survey's results were no mere aberration and that student performance in civics and citizenship has remained low.
Opinion: As Trump exits the White House, he leaves Trumpism behind in Australia Monday January 18, 2021 By Mark Kenny Australian Capital Territory Through recent natural disasters, global upheavals and a pandemic, Australia’s political centre has largely held. Australians may have disagreed at times, but they have also…
Nominations open for Queensland Reconciliation Awards Wednesday January 13, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Community & Social There are five awards categories, including business, community, education, partnership, and health and wellbeing.
Opinion: Why city policy to ‘protect the Brisbane backyard’ is failing Thursday December 10, 2020 By Rachel Gallagher and Thomas Sigler Editors' Picks Urban consolidation policies to contain development within existing urban areas are creating poor development outcomes in Australian cities. The low-density housing character of the city…
Premium Insights and analysis For public servants, the future of the national cabinet means adapting to centralised power and engineering accountability Monday December 7, 2020 By Chris Woods Australian Capital Territory The establishment of the national cabinet as first a crisis, and ultimately permanent, body has presented the most radical change to Australia's intergovernmental cooperation structures…
What can be learnt from Australia’s electoral system Friday December 4, 2020 By Pavitra Raja Australian Capital Territory The Australian electoral system works. Even Former US President Barack Obama is a fan. Here are four things that other nations can learn from it.
Premium Columnists Quarantine constitutionally a commonwealth power and responsibility Thursday December 3, 2020 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks One of the mysteries of Australia’s pandemic response is why states and territories were sucked in to taking responsibility for quarantine, writes Stephen Bartos.
Premium Insights and analysis NSW, Queensland and Victoria remake sector relations with renewable energy zones Monday November 30, 2020 By Chris Woods Australian Capital Territory Recently, the NSW, Queensland and Victorian governments each pushed the development of renewable energy zones as part of their post-COVID economic roadmaps. We explore how…
‘Good policy processes result in better outcomes’: Think tanks rate decision-making processes behind 20 government policies Tuesday November 24, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal New research conducted by two ideologically opposed think tanks has shown that it is possible for evidence-based policy making in government to be separate from…
Premium Columnists Do consultants help avoid public sector politicisation? Thursday November 19, 2020 By Helena Cain Australian Capital Territory As a senior public servant, your politician strongly suggests that you drive an obviously political initiative – that may or may not go against your…
‘Three-peat Palaszczuk’: why Queenslanders swung behind Labor in historic election Monday November 2, 2020 By Chris Salisbury Editors' Picks Not a straightforward repeat of recent election outcomes in the NT ACT and NZ, this election panned out in ways particular to QLD'’s regional diversity,…
Meet North Queensland First, the party that wants to kill crocs and form a new state Friday October 16, 2020 By Claire Brennan Editors' Picks A new party has recently emerged in northern Queensland, with crocodiles and the balance of power on its mind. It is also a prime example…
Opinion: our political arena is not fit for purpose in 21st century Australia Monday October 12, 2020 By Richard Hames Australian Capital Territory Governments won't critique themselves a systemic level in ways that open up for structural change. Thus, effective change stays off the agenda.
Queensland Labor becomes latest party to tackle coercive control Tuesday October 6, 2020 By Chris Woods Editors' Picks The Palaszczuk government has issued an election promise to tackle coercive control on “several fronts”, including training programs for first responders and domestic violence case…